Under the Blooming Spirit Tree, Naller held the fallen Blooming Spirit Flower in his hand and watched helplessly as the flower fell and turned into a mass of dead things.
The man fell to the ground and hung his head.
"Sa...Li..."
Someone saw this scene and shouted in fear.
"Ah! Him! His flower has failed!!! There is an evil spirit coming out to harm people!!! Leave him!!!"
The loud voice made everyone present turn pale. The timid people had given up their original plans and started running towards the outside of the Magic Garden. The crowd was pushing each other, and a few unlucky guys fell to the ground and were beaten. Trampled by others.
The scene instantly became chaotic.
"Don't be afraid, everyone! We are here!"
The warrior carrying the Arcane Straight Sword and the rest of the Balance Guardians came to the Blooming Spirit Tree and began to maintain order. Even so, about half of the people left, and the crowded space suddenly became much more spacious.
After taking a few steps to reach Naller, Lingjue squatted down, held Naller's shoulders, and used magic power to check Naller's physical and mental state.
"Please grief."
The moment he was comforted by others, Naller raised his tear-stained face and looked at the upright young man in front of him.
"My wife... Sally, is she... is she..."
"There is evil that has disturbed her rest and disrupted the balance between the two worlds, which is why we are here."
Staring at the withered spirit flower in Naler's hand, Lingjue felt very heavy and withdrew his right hand.
"For your own safety, you'd better get out of here."
"No, I won't leave, I want to see her... I want to tell her that I miss her very much and am willing to forgive her... Even if it happens again, I will die for her..."
Shaking his head, Lingjue no longer tried to persuade the poor people, but instead spoke in a deep voice to the warriors who were willing to follow him and longed to pursue 'balance' together.
"This is just the beginning of the disaster. Everyone, please disperse to prevent evil spirits and spirits from harming innocent people. However, if you encounter a peaceful spirit, please let it go."
The rest of the people were ordered to disperse, leaving only their spiritual sense to accompany Naler.
As the eldest son of the well-known big family [Aikaxiu Family] in Shangzan in the north, Lingjue Aikaxiu has shown outstanding leadership and fighting talents since he was a child. At the age of twenty-eight, he not only brought the Aikaxiu family to He is proficient in martial arts, and through understanding the family's sacred object [Arcane Soul Blade], he created a meditation method that can break through illusions and gain insight into the two worlds. It is also logical to inherit that no one except his grandfather has ever Mastered the soul-slaying holy weapon [Arcane Soul Blade].
Thanks to eyes that can distinguish between twilight and light, spiritual senses find the culprit that disrupts the balance between the spiritual and physical realms.
【turmoil】
Whether it is spirits in the spiritual realm or humans in the material realm, they may become the source of unrest. This is also the root concept of the 'balance' he created. Only by calming the unrest and restoring balance to the two worlds can Ionia maintain its stability. Stability and harmony.
Whoever becomes a turbulent person will become a target that needs to be exorcised. The demons who make trouble during the Soul Blooming Festival are his biggest enemies.
On the other side, the swordsman Doron Castro, who was adjusting his breath, saw that the number of people was getting smaller, so he stood up and approached the Spirit Blossom Tree.
The cherry-colored spirit flower was about to bloom and fell high on the branches, but the swordsman felt indescribably irritable.
Of so many flowers, which one blooms for yourself?
"Master, where are you?"
The restlessness that could not be quelled by adjusting the breath made Duolong deeply doubt whether he could find the Master's Spirit Blossom Flower during this Spirit Blossom Festival.
Time is searching, and the calls are passing by. Seeing the sky getting dark, and the flower bones closing one after another, Duolong understands that his action this time may be ruined again, but before the final curtain call, he will not Be prepared to give up.
A new group of participants of the Soul Blooming Festival came to the Magic Garden, including the Ionians who left during the day because of flower failure. Many people successfully used the Soul Blooming Flower to let their loved ones rest in peace, allowing them to have more children. Some luck, coupled with the fact that the failure of the flower did not cause any turmoil, they chose to look for another opportunity before midnight.
"Obviously it's so late, but instead of reducing the number of people, there are actually more people."
Xiyue frowned, having a bad feeling.
Hundreds of Ionians with lanterns were surrounding under the Spirit Blooming Tree. The warm firelight did not bring any warmth to the female warrior, but instead made Xiyue feel chilled all over.
There seem to be a lot of familiar faces?
"Three hundred Spirit Blooming Flowers have bloomed, which is more than six times the number of withered Spirit Blooming Flowers. A whole day has passed, but nothing happened?"
Lester thought about O'Gorman's experience and fell into deep thought.
The cat boy successfully bid farewell to his father through the blooming spirit flower, and helped his mother find the answer she had been pursuing from his father. This was a smooth thing, so why did he feel palpitations?
However, the broken spirit flower in Naller's hand did not cause him any discomfort.
Did you overlook something?
"I remember that the disaster five years ago seemed to be caused by the evil spirits and spirits in the spiritual realm that could possess the flowers after the flowers died, right?"
"Yes, to be precise, after the Blooming Spirit Flower failed, the fallen Spirit Blooming Flower served as a medium to allow the evil spirits wandering in the spiritual realm to possess those who prayed, causing killing and chaos. This is also the case for many people. The reason why they are afraid of losing their flowers is that they are more afraid of being possessed by evil spirits than being attacked by spirits."
"Then this time, why didn't the evil spirit possess her after the death of the flower?"
"I, I don't know either..."
"Something's wrong, something's wrong. Where have all the evil spirits of Hua Bai gone? Let's go find Nale and O'Gorman!"
…
Duolong, who passed by the spiritual sense carrying the soul blade and continued to look for the blooming spirit flower, was bumped into by the oncoming man. The swordsman was fine, but the man fell to the ground with a 'plop', his face straight. It hit the ground, motionless.
Lingjue turned around and looked at the two people involved in the dispute. He felt that the man lying on the ground seemed familiar, so he couldn't help but pause and take a second look.
"Are you OK?"
There was no response, the man who fell to the ground just lay motionless on the ground.
"It's just a fall. As a man, you have to be stronger. I apologize to you."
Frowning, Doron pulled the man up, only to find that the man had lost his breath.
At this moment, the man's face was as pale as a ball of snow, and he looked very scary.
His face changed, Lingjue took a few steps to the man's side, and touched his neck without saying a word.
"He fell to death on his own, it's none of my business."
"I know."
Duolong, who hated trouble, explained, but found that the little leader leading the group looked very ugly, so he couldn't help but ask more questions.
"How did he die? Who could fall and face like this?"
"His soul is long gone. This is just a walking corpse."
"Then how can he still walk?"
"So that's it, that's it...it's so easy to steal everything."
Lingjue's face became increasingly ugly.
"Can you speak human language?"
"That's too late."
Holding Duolong's shoulder, Lingjue said in a deep voice, knowing that the swordsman had never found the blooming spirit flower belonging to his relatives.
"Things have reached their worst, please come with me."
Gritting his teeth, Duolong still followed Lingjue who left alone.
Three more praying Ionians passed by the two of them. After passing by the white-faced man who fell on the ground, they slowly left as if they hadn't seen anything.
Under the orders of the spiritual sense, the Guardians of Balance took new actions, and some warriors quickly left the Magic Garden.
Under the Spirit Blooming Tree, Naller looked down at the fallen Spirit Blooming Flower in his hand with empty eyes, his heart filled with despair.
"Ogman, don't wait for me."
"..."
"Ogman?"
He raised his head and saw that the cat-man boy was sitting cross-legged in front of him with his eyes closed, as if he was asleep. He could not persuade Naller to let go of the past, so he could only comfort the man by accompanying him.
"You've been tired for a long day, you might as well take a rest."
Lester and Xiyue ran to Naler's side, nodded and said hello to them, and Naler continued to sit on the ground blankly.
"Ogman?"
【He is dead. 】
The hand reaching for the cat's ear froze in mid-air.
The blue bird above his head directly gave the answer. Lester froze on the spot, looking at the drooped gray cat ears that could no longer stand up, and his heart tightened.
Although we only knew each other for a short time,
But he still liked this honest and reliable Vastaya boy. He even called him master, and he learned a lot of knowledge and martial arts from him. He also shared many of his own little secrets with him, including the secrets of the Vastaya race. Omika Yalan and his grandma Xia Rui.
But, it's still a step too late.
Unknowingly, in the blink of an eye, in a daze... the person died.
This time, the person who is affected is not the one who has lost the blooming spirit flower, but the one who has bloomed.
From the beginning, the evil behind the scenes changed the rules of the Soul Blooming Festival and included everyone.
Including myself.
He was originally going to Weili to participate in the Soul Blooming Festival, but he took him out of Praia Village, and then left him in the Magic Garden of Presidence forever...
"Liszt?"
Without responding to the worried call from the female warrior next to him, Lester just bent down, with the same smile as before, and touched the cat boy's head.
This time, the originally warm and soft fluff lost its proper temperature and became a little cold.
From now on, there will no longer be a gray cat calling me Master Liszt with a 'meow' sound...
"Have a good sleep, the master will seek justice for you."
"What happened?"
Naller finally realized what was wrong and wanted to stand up, but his legs were too numb from sitting cross-legged for a long time, so he fell directly to the ground.
Xiyue put her hand on O'Gorman's neck, her face changed, and she said coldly with murderous intent.
"he died."
"Dead, dead? How is that possible!?"
"Let's go find Lingjue."
Lester, whose expression returned to indifference, turned around and left. Xiyue quickly followed, and Naller also wanted to follow, but after seeing the cat boy who had been accompanying him all afternoon, he stopped and sat down again.
This time, he put down the dilapidated spirit flower that he had been holding in his hand for a day, and took the vastaya boy's cold hand.
He had been with him all afternoon, and now it was his turn.
…
The Palace of Eternal Existence, the brightly lit Palace of Reincarnation.
Xiu sat cross-legged on the futon, staring at the ever-burning lantern. He seemed silent, but in fact, heaven and man were at war.
[The evil is stirring, we should take the initiative to drive away the evil and guard the harmony of the nascent land! 】
[Don’t forget Karma’s responsibilities. Everything has its own operating rules. We should not interfere in any way. The most we can do is prophecy. Powerful power should not be used to break the rules. 】
[If I don't take action tonight, many Ionians will die. They call us 'Karma', and they don't want me to ignore death! 】
[Xiu, this is their destiny, and it is also Karma’s law of heaven. It must not be violated!
The reason why there is Karma in the First Land is because Karma will respect the will of the soul of Ionia. We cannot override the soul of Ionia, which will only bring endless disasters!
As a Kalma, you should do what Kalma should do! 】
【……you're right. 】
There was a flash of blood in the night sky,
Outside the hall, the martial monk Lu of Shuoji Temple raised his right hand, stopped in front of the door, put it down gently, and sighed.
In the hall, Karma, the soul of Ionia, closed her eyes, clasped her hands together, and purified the six roots.
In the Palace of Eternal Life, the heavy door slowly closed, and the stubborn and cold door latch declined all visitors in the most tactful way. After a few screams, there were pools of blood and a few scattered body fragments outside the door. .
When the moon fell, Presidence, who had already rested, faced the most terrible disaster.
Hundreds of people who had experienced the ceremony of blooming souls fell down without warning, and their dissipated souls became food for the possessed demons.
After the evil spirit larvae that had already parasitized in the body devoured the host's soul, it successfully took over the host's cold body and opened its blood-red eyes.
The fingernails turned into blades, and the body was alienated by the energy in the spiritual realm, growing scales and terrifying scarlet carapace. Just like the legendary demons, the monsters began to kill all life in sight, and many did not like to close the door. The people were directly killed by the intruding monsters, and their flesh and blood were devoured, becoming the powerful force of the devil.
Various spirits hidden in the shadows emerge from the spiritual realm, attack humans with strange laughter, and harvest lives.
The patrolling militiamen and order-maintaining warriors soon gained a group of terrifying enemies. The fresh lives passed away quietly under the gaze of the Mother of Masks. The blood flowed on the beautiful land, nourishing the sprouts that had not yet broken ground. .
Chaos spread rapidly like a plague, and the peaceful Presidence instantly became a cruel battlefield.
The real core place is in the Magic Garden, where the Spirit Blooming Tree is located.
Within ten seconds after the flowers of the Blooming Spirit Tree fell, the boundary between the spiritual realm and the material realm of the Magic Garden was completely broken. With the fallen Spirit Blooming Flower as the center of the formation, the powerful energy that had been planned for a long time formed a barrier, leaving behind the magic. All life in the garden was surrounded, and the thin film emitting chaotic light became an impenetrable barrier that allowed neither entry nor exit.
The people who fell on the ground sat up one after another and turned into monsters, and screams came one after another. The boatman Naller, who knew nothing about the commotion that had occurred, stared blankly at the cat-man boy who suddenly opened his blood-red eyes in front of him. With joy, she hugged the young man's delicate body.
"That's great, O'Gorman, it turns out you're fine, that's great..."
With his chin resting on the one-eyed man's shoulder, the soul-snatched boy opened his terrifying canine teeth and was about to bite the prey's neck and drink blood when he heard the man's firm and gentle voice.
"Don't be afraid, Ogman, I will protect you... I can't protect my wife, I lost her, but I am unwilling to lose my friend again."
A demon looked at his companion in confusion, as if he was not sure whether the person in his companion's arms was a living person. He was about to step forward to check, but saw the ferocious look in his companion's eyes. After hesitating, the demon chose to leave and look for other prey.
The cat boy's mouth slowly closed, and his mutated hands became smoother. After driving away his fellow humans, a familiar yet unfamiliar name echoed in the boy's mind.
"Ao...ge...man..."
"who is it?"
